Bug #43126 two proxy-backend-addresses with same IP but different port does not failover

Description:
configuring two proxy-backend-addresses with the same IP address but different TCP port, ie --proxy-backend-addresses=127.0.0.1:3306 --proxy-backend-addresses=127.0.0.1:3307 doesn't seem to failover. the reason for this configuration is to tunnel the mysql traffic over a ssh tunnel to remote mysql servers to encrypt the mysql traffic. if the server ip addresses are specified directly, failover works if one of the servers fails, but when specifying 127.0.0.1 with different tcp ports, it doesn't failover to the other server if one of the servers fail. message from the logs ...

2009-02-23 11:08:06: (debug) [network-mysqld.c:781]: error on server connection (fd: 10 event: 2). closing client connection.
2009-02-23 11:09:41: (message) last message repeated 6 times

How to repeat:
setup two ssh tunnels to two different mysql servers and setup the proxy-backend-addresses to point to 127.0.0.1 and the tcp ports used for the ssh tunnel. start mysql-proxy, launch the mysql client and connect to the local mysql-proxy address, and then shutdown the first mysql server, and attempt to use the mysql client. the client will complain it lost a connection to the server continuously and mysql-proxy will not attempt to use the second mysql server.

Thank you for the report.

Verified as described.

Problem exists only if connection over SSH tunnel is used. If just use 2 different servers on different ports on the same machine everything works fine.